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Chuck Tatelbaum is a Fort Lauderdale bankruptcy attorney by day. Once a year, he gets to clown around in a big way. Tatelbaum's experiences as one of 900 volunteer clowns at last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City were captured in the new WLRN documentary, "Journey To The Macy's Parade," which will air on two South Florida PBS stations this month. It debuts at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 on WLRN-Ch. 17 in Fort Lauderdale-Miami and airs again at 7 p.m. Nov. 23 on WXEL-Ch. 42 in West Palm Beach. "What I like about being a clown is that it's so different from what I normally do, and it lets me be myself," Tatelbaum, 71, tells...

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